Presentation of Open/Linked Data initiatives being carried out by Aberdeen City Council. Includes details of the Nesta co-funded Code for Europe partnership and the CodeTheCity hackathon events. Presented by Ian Watt (Aberdeen City Council) and Andrew Sage (Code for Europe) at the Scottish Linked Data Interest Group in Edinburgh on 10th September 2014.

1. Aberdeen Open / Linked Data Initiatives:
SLDIG - Edinburgh 10 Sept 2014
Aberdeen City Council

2. Aberdeen City Council
Introduction
• Code For Europe in Scotland
• Detail of Aberdeen’s Approach (AS)
• CodeTheCity
• Linked Data
• Scottish Govt – Open Data strategy

3. Aberdeen City Council
Code For Europe

4. Aberdeen City Council
Code For Europe (2)

5. Aberdeen City Council
Code For Europe (3)

6. Aberdeen’s Three Phases
1. Technical infrastructure – Open311
2. Sports and physical activities
3. Community involvement

7. Phase 1– Original Plan
• Create Open311 server
• Open311 server queries existing bespoke
Aberdeen City Council systems
• Report issues via Open311
Reality stepped in

8. Phase 1– Plan B
• Develop Open311 server using Sinatra
• Populated server with
– Schools data
– Community Centres data
– Car Park data
• Expand beyond the Open311 Inquiry v1
specification

9. Involve Everyone

10. Involve Everyone
• Let the people decide the problems they
wanted solving
• Excited to get what they want instead of given
something they didn’t want
• People who didn’t attend still speaking
excitedly about the event and its impact

11. Demo Map

12. Using Car Park data

13. Phase 2– Proof of Concept
• Capture the data by hand
– Scrapping from websites
– Manually typing in from PDFs

14. Phase 2– Proof of Concept

15. Phase 2– Live Data

16. Phase 2
• Activity discovery
• Crowd source sweat levels
• Mobile app
• Web app for Health Professionals

17. Phase 3
• We have community centres data
• Identify what we can do with it

18. Linked Data
• Implement a layer within the server to provide
all the data in a Linked Data format

19. Aberdeen City Council
CodeTheCity

20. Aberdeen City Council
CodeTheCity

21. Aberdeen City Council
Linked Data – Smart Journey

22. Aberdeen City Council
Smart Journey (2)

23. Aberdeen City Council
Smart Journey (3)

24. Aberdeen City Council
What else?
• Data repository
• Scottish Government Open Data
strategy

25. Aberdeen City Council
Useful Links
• Smart Journey: http://smartjourney.co.uk
• C4E: http://codeforeurope.net/
• Commons For Europe: http://commonsforeurope.net/
• C4E Github: https://github.com/codeforeurope
• CodeTheCity(CTC): http://codethecity.org
• Eventifier for CTC:
http://eventifier.com/event/codethecity/popular
• SmartJourney data: http://data.smartjourney.co.uk/
• Test Open311 server - http://open311.xoverto.com
• MatchTheCity server – http://matchthecity.herokuapp.com

26. Aberdeen City Council
Contact details & photo credits
• Ian Watt
ianw@aberdeencity.gov.uk
+44 1224 522830
@watty62
• Andrew Sage
andrew@xoverto.com
@symboticaandrew